Imago Listening Club

Quite simply we take turns to suggest to imago album or songs (that is kinda out his wheelhouse but can also be something you think he might or should like)

He then will give his rundown (either liveblogging or a 'review' at the end then someone else will give their recommendation.

Volunteer below to take a turn.

My recommendation is this -
http://i.imgur.com/G9Lue6a.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1lZahjeu4AhPkg9JARZr5F
spotify:album:1lZahjeu4AhPkg9JARZr5F

Imago oftens posts revulsion of them but I dont think he realises that there's a LOT more to them than bluesy heavy rock. For such a big band they were pretty damn weird at times and I do think he would like them if he gave them a chance.

some of their songs are pretty "undeniable"

volunteer for a turn and once he's finished one suggestion he can move on.

nah, i'll just post recommendations here as they come to me, and he can listen or ignore as he wishes -- as he has done for the last 5 years.

yeah can this not be turn-based. pitch in more or less as you please, although a profusion of too much stuff will probably mean it takes longer to get around to.

going to sleep now, will check that out on the morrow though

I think you would enjoy disc 2 of PG more than the first.

don't we do this every year

because you like complexity and expressed an interest in jazz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUd0SbegdMQ

probably best not to embed

What did you end up thinking of the Pop Group, imago?

apologies if you've already heard this stuff:

Biota - Bellowing Room (Side B)

Morton Subotnick - The Wild Bull (Side A and Side B)

ftr:
yes! There's a song by The Pop Group, that I thought the lyrics were "Don't call me baby" (I think it's actually "don't call me pain") ...

― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Monday, August 17, 2009 1:51 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think I also have issues with "baby" as a term of endearment.

Hahaha! I've recently asked a few female friends of mine whether this bothers them and it doesn't for the most part. I think it should.

― cockles (country matters), Monday, August 17, 2009 1:52 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xp -I don't hate all songs that use "baby" as a term of endearment, but if a romantic partner were to call me that, I'd have problems with that.

The Pop Group song is still a really good song.

― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Monday, August 17, 2009 1:57 PM (4 years ago)

I mean, I'd hope it isn't my lack of a penis that makes LJ less likely to follow my recommended listening than other male ilxors

et tu sarahell

Imago I recommend the pop group

I recommend this little known singer called Beyonce. You might like her.

Shouldn't ilxors be recommending pop to Joey? I thought he was a stan for avant-garde experimental and so was going to always enjoy the soothing sounds from Takayanagi's guitar.

imago i have a hunch that if you set preconceptions aside, you'll appreciate how majestic physical graffiti can be

imago do you interest yourself in dub / reggae?

lol I made a beeline for Biota and found it entirely to my liking. quite proud if that's my comfort zone tbh, but a million cheers for the recommendation unreg

jul10 you might be amused to know that thanks to nakhers I've also been listening to quite a lot of Ferneyhough over the last couple of days - the guy's a bloody genius and perhaps quite an important philosopher of composition

okok well, physical graffiti it must be now. then takanayagi.

ooh good question dog latin - not as such, although I don't hate it - there's just so much, I never know where to start

o this is the one with 'kashmir' - that's their only smashhit I actually sorta like. ok cool

Poo Group came up in another similar thread a few years back. You may have been there, seashell; I was just following up...

Sarahell *'_'*

like that's the best typo in that post

More like Plop Group amirite?

ooh good question dog latin - not as such, although I don't hate it - there's just so much, I never know where to start

yes, there's a lot of stuff and a lot of it's great and quite a bit of it's useless. judging by what i think you might like, i'd be interested in seeing what you think of The Congos' 'Heart of the Congos', Lee Perry & the Upsetters' 'Super Ape' or Joe Gibbs 'Majestic Dub'.

physgraf is q a pleasant background jammy thing for now. 'in my time of dying' and 'trampled under foot' so far making for the best ambience. is this music meant to be listened to while doing other things, i now wonder - like the traxpoll dance music, best experienced socially?

As cher out of clueless would say, are you talking about drugs?

almost certainly

with the right substances, this cd become the spiritual ecstasy 'differentology' was for yow

actually i sincerely doubt that, although now i do wonder what music i'd find most enhanced by substances. probably something i already like, such as magma

background and foreground are the same thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YTzWu2ys2s

oooh 'ten years gone' by a zillion miles the best thing so far

^^^
My favourite on the album, some days my fave Zep tune.

If you're into that you should check out 'Rain Song' off Houses of the Holy.

yeah have heard the whole album & that was comfortably the standout. side c so much better than side d you wonder why they didn't just end it there

Yeah side C is the best side. In the Light, Down by the Sea and TYG all amazing.

yeah. sides b and c the best tbh, release them as a single album and I'd get reasonably enthusiastic

I'd throw in Custard Pie at the beginning, such a funky riff.

Perhaps. Side A didn't really grab me but it wasn't the worst opener

Jul10 otm, obv - this Takayanagi clearly belongs on the J0rdan S Listening Club thread, not this one. Obviously it's awesome and imma listen to the whole thing in gleeful joy, wishing I was watching it all unfold live (o god, heaven)

o days, this is force divine

i do wonder what music i'd find most enhanced by substances.

Have you tried the early 90s dance music/mdma combo?

nah but takayanagi/lsd combo is now high on agenda

dub kind of works really well with a smoky smoke.

You don't say.

funny that.

Almost as startling as the ecstasy/rave revelation.

The Rover is my fave song on PG, and is probably my fave led zep song period

im surprised to see that youve never listened to "astral weeks". personally, it took me a long time to get under my skin. but i love it now (i do prefer "veedon fleece" a bit more tbh which theres a youtube link for as well) and i think its got the right amount of proggyish knottiness and eccentricity for you to like it right off the bat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfhF7ZyURsA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1vYs5LBC3c&list=PLWLQDGsdAqlZVnsHI9f9YKnHgjbP5aBMY

me or imago? I've owned the cd for 20 years but never got into it. Same with that grateful dead cd

Ahaha someone actually read that terrible post (Oasis thread, k3rr). On a bus rn but will check later along with unreg's other suggestion. Also, had the brainwave of recording my responses to the albumzpoll here (unless it's an album I love, in which case I'll loudly and obnoxiously declare my love in the thread obv

)

xpost well, this thread is for imago but yeah id recommend it to anyone else who hasnt heard it. never could get with the grateful dead, not that they have anything to do with van morrison. actually "astral weeks" is more jazzy knottiness than proggy knottiness tbf

Have the 2013 album results been done yet?

imminent

O god yeah y'all shd listen & comment to anything posted here, lemme be yr mere conduit

its just that on branwell bells thread i was talking about astral weeks

If you haven't heard Octopus by Gentle Giant I would definitely say, give it a gander

frogbs mixing his animal metaphors

Thee Oh Sees is one of the worst bandnames in history, by fkn god

i am boycotting this thread until you listen to that fucking foetus album all the way through

me too

cool ok well I'll do that when normal service resumes after the EOY albumzpoll

J Barwick - Nepenthe: ummm I can't make my mind up about this after 2 and a bit trax - it flirts with the sublime, perhaps at points achieves it, but at other moments appears to be prettily blathering its Sigur Rossy way to dirgeville. Give it a couple more trax

imago have you changed your mind on blindly dismissing led zep then?

consider me in the 'ok they had their moments' camp, which is quite a big step tbh

yes indeed it is. I feel I succeeded in something!

i think you may be ready to dive in to tracks like No Quarter now

led zep suck

kinda done with J Barwick tbh - getting a similar vibe from this as from - hold yr noses - God Is An Astronaut

-_-

she purveys what I'd call cheaply-won bliss, and I don't find it blissful, sorry

oh, Eluvium is another example of this sorta thing, except I think Eluvium v occasionally had better songs

ahahaha omg this Fall Out Boy

such ridiculous synth-orch heavy-handed disco-mallpunk emo - I think I can respect the humour of it all at least, doesn't appear to be taking itself remotely seriously. goodness what if I end up *liking* this stuff in 2 or 3 trax time

Fall Out Boy really stand out from their competitors mainly by dint of having much sharper melodies, and the guy's got a decent voice.

yeah I'm...not minding this at all

i'm curious what you think of this warped, one could say 'proggy' beat scene track: http://droppinggems.bandcamp.com/album/gem-drops-three (really starts switching up at 2:20)

^hold that thought Jordan, coz FOB are getting real

I...can't....turn....this...offffff

it's put together really quite skilfully - I won't go outta my way to rly listen to FOB but they're obviously a much, much, much better band than I may have lazily assumed they were

oh no little joeys on drugs

The Oh Sees were never never called "The OC's" -- the band was originally called OCS, and it was originally just Dwyer and a drummer.

looool I wonder why they changed THAT name

*grunts opening riff of Riverboat song, tosses back a Carling*

Hey Imago.

Some highlights from the three dub albums I mentioned:

Congos - Open Up The Gate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COSNHGTuFC0

'Heart of the Congos' is probably the best vocal roots album in history. As well as the ludicrously good harmonies, Scratch's dusty, jungly, otherworldly production makes it one of the best albums in the history of Jamaican music. Couldn't find a Youtube vid that was particularly good quality I'm afraid.

The Upsetters - Croaking Lizard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdDlpQ-E7kE

Another Lee Perry production. A dub masterclass really. This track repurposes one of dub's fattest grooves. I sometimes get bored of reggae DJs, but Prince Jazzbo's (I think) delivery here is full of emotion.

Joe Gibbs - Edward the Eight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1GRjMupyEk

A bit of a change from Lee Perry's production. Joe's style is ultimately cleaner, slightly more disco oriented than Scratch's rootsy vibes. Think this might be one of my favourite vintage dub tunes. Always love the synthy effects he uses, and that bass line has so much character to it.

Ah cheers! Will come back and digest all of these after poll season's done. Maybe even during if you're all fabulously lucky.

o gosh the Bill Callahan track ciderpress linked...I was all ready to be all 'BOOORING' but this is frankly rly rly excellent music, superb wibbly freakout drone-folk

one to check out, clearly

oh, lorde's been @ the bladerunner soundtrack

I like that Eclipse set but this will always be my go to Takayangi, w/Abe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBXm-v_4ENM

The Gradual is just as good but bcz its near silent no one will believe that.

o my, well i shall check both out. they will make for a fine palate-cleanser after this albumzpoll is done. lorde isn't too awful (dan otm, 'buzzcut season' the highlight) but i'm done with it

well, the gradual takes a while to build ... it's, you know, gradual

And the mass is just...mass.

Yeah I get that.

haha, that was just me being entertained that the titles are descriptive of the music

it's not JUST mass, it very clearly intensifies over its running-length, achieves nirvana abt 21 mins in

still listening to lorde, call it inertia, call it the album not being *too* bad rly

Heart Of The Congos has this eerie old testament quality where at times it sounds like sacred hymns from ancient times or something. There were a lot of essential re-issues like this on the Blood and Fire label in the 90's, this was probably the best one.

srsly I will honestly by blood and fire and everything else that's holy listen to all this stuff. right now it's Thee Oh Sees, but it won't be for long (zing!)

the sort of frantic faux-punk that's nervously checking to see if its drainpipes are tight enough. ban

ohhh they got lucky. was about to kill it and track 2 began, which was a gr8 improvement

I'm not generally a fan of garage rock, but Oh Sees is a really solid band and I end up liking everything they do.

track 4 best yet

hmm, no clunkers so far in albumzpoll

yeah not bad, but next

o gosh the Bill Callahan track ciderpress linked...I was all ready to be all 'BOOORING' but this is frankly rly rly excellent music, superb wibbly freakout drone-folk

― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, January 27, 2014 4:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so your boring appraisal might be closer to the truth

i like it a bunch but i am a mellow person

well, worth it for that one song tbh

follakzoid are nay bad but k3rr how the flaming fuck did u allow this in the metal poll :D

he allowed Melt Banana in the metal poll, which to me is o_O

M-B feature extremely loud guitars, noize, yelped vox...it fits

this just isn't metal in any way at all, my god! but it's not bad for a completely derivative krautabout

M-B feature extremely loud guitars, noize, yelped vox...it fits

So we can vote for punk bands in metal polls now?

fair call tbh

bit bored of follakzoid - strikes me as excellent background music but doesn't reward intense listening too well for me

like, circle do this stuff wayyy better

Kelela - some v interesting production on this! She's not a v engaging presence at all tho. Listening for the beats, everything else just kinda washes over me

Fun fact: the building on the cover of Physical Graffiti is also featured in this classic video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKLVmBOOqVU

sorry kelela, u ain't doin' it for me any more

u never rly were altho u got some dece production contacts clearly

Cut Copy - *vomits blood, dies*

going to play the first 10 seconds of every song on this album

did they just sing "shine brother shine on, shine brother in the sun"

permaban

oh this music makes me ill

y'know that when something is permabanned, you stop listening to it, right?

i just had to make sure

you tempbanned it in other words

or yellow carded it

unless cut copy created a sock account and snuck into your ears pretending to be a new band?

f(x) give me the idea of bandname mashup f(n+x) and tbh i think that this would also sound kinda rad :D

obviously the music is much better than bloody cut copy (who are *now* permabanned), gonna give this a good few trax

i'd know cut copy in a millisecond. actually no i wdnt, so much 80's-actin' bilge out there. shit.

f(x) are p good fun i gotta concede, and the music's well put-together, got a bit of depth n craft, not all major-key harmonisin'

somewhere, somehow, frank k0gan is otm abt this lot

so they didn't pull a meowsy mcdermott on you?

no, they did not farcottonloco inspector slade this shit up & end up being f(x)

so this danny brown album is 2 weeks long

oh shit

what the hell :D

this isn't yer pop-rap ilxfodder, this is hard & tite

now it is yer pop-rap ilxfodder

hmm idk actually. there's something brilliant about this. everything i'm reading about danny brown persuades me i'd go apeshit over the previous album

You might.

actually am rly rly rly getting to enjoy this

"Adderall Admiral" builds an entire track off of different segments of This Heat's "Horizontal Hold," with a Hawkwind sample thrown in for good measure.

i am listening the shit out of this album @ some pt

rme at "pop-rap ilxfodder" but you might enjoy the source of the 'Torture' beat's amazing sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxfBg_m4-2o

ooh ty, think Torture was where the album went into overdrive

this is brilliant, yeah completely sold on D Brown, wda made my ballot easily (lol I haven't reached the 'pop' 2ndhalf yet tho lol)

actually forget my earlier suggestion, listen to some arty/confessional rap by my man:
http://hellfyreclub.bandcamp.com/track/post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc-for-schopenhauer

am forgetting no suggestions, as intimated earlier, but thanks

Danny Brown album not quite challenging Clipping as my number one rap of '13 but it's giving Death Grips a real tussle for second

i'm sure danny brown appreciates your support.

(i found Clipping unlistenable tbh)

whole album - masterpiece. if anything gets stronger near the end

factory floor - can't follow up danny brown

and reeks of james murphy

and uh

no

^^^the sort of post that demonstrates why I'm posting all this here rather than on the albumzpoll thread

'fall back' as feat. in the traxpoll definitely the best thing here by a fair way on a rapid skimthru

is this ciara a concept album about her new romance

opening track, just over breakup, gonna 'have us a good time', can see where this is going

i guess the fact it has a *concept* (according to this quick interpretation) means i'll have to listen to all of it

think i get this more than i once might have

'so turnt up' is kinda amazing

yeah that was a super solid album with elements of euphoric self-celebration that I won't deny

told a nice li'l story there has ciara, a story of her heart

parquet courts, o rlllly

this halfasses the raggedy garage-indie thing. needs to me muuuch raggedier. way too zine-ready, too prepackaged. eugh. enough.

i think i would find this music less loathsome if i wasn't listening to it; hence, bring on k michelle

Interested in this one.

lol hai spottie. what's allthis bs DiS indie doin' in the ILX poll lol

k michelle is pleasingly off-kilter so far, the first two tracks have both got weird production elements that play against her relatively straight vocal bat rly intriguingly - waiting to see how she develops. comes off as delightfully schizophrenic (sorry if that's an insensitive use of language erryone)

lol this next track is a fkn quasi-beatlesy chamber rnb thing :D

also her lyrics are much weirder than her delivery - kinda mad, but deadpan

also a bit mad @ u spottie as despite knowing me a li'l bit u did not send me email after email with 'danny brown' as subject and no other text at all

predictably, 'pay my bills' :D

um XD

'sometimes' was fkn epic, but then this

awesome

matt dc not otm

ah so she's a reality tv star from outside the usual canon, or at least her star has been made unconventionally

it shows, and i think it's to her benefit - this follows no formula except her own extremely idiosyncratic dream-logic

well, that was...something. faded a bit in last 2 trax but had already made its point. good record!

right, so...haha fuck listening to the arctic monkeys :D

nah ok, one song...but if u displease me then by god

*slumps face into hand* ok you guys, seriously now

right, so, i won't be doing this tomorrow. might just do one round-up on the actual pollthread. today's albums have been of terrifyingly and unexpectedly high quality & i'm fairly certain lightning won't strike 2ce in that regard

lol hai spottie. what's allthis bs DiS indie doin' in the ILX poll lol

i don't even know, I've displaced myself so far away from anything (new) with a guitar of late. Just don't care enough to even get mad about it you know. List is pretty cool so far tbf. Some metal, some r&b, some indie, some pop, some raps.

also a bit mad @ u spottie as despite knowing me a li'l bit u did not send me email after email with 'danny brown' as subject and no other text at all

SORRY. Wouldn't think it would be up your street but excited now cos I feel like this expanded pallet of yours is a good opportunity to make some good recs I woulda kept quiet about in the past.

What did you think of K Michelle VSOP?

Also not sure if you'll go backwards on Danny and get XXX but at least listen to this http://youtu.be/J--rO7FP16U at some point. Maybe his hardest raps and the production has so much tension, not sure it ever really releases.

imago have you heard the Darkside record yet

its got a dece chance of placing in albums poll so i dont want to scoop it too hard but seems like something you'd enjoy

imago since I'm always accusing you of only listening to metal that fits your art school aesthetic ima gonna recommend you a few albums and Id love to see you live blog the results in your own time. I think even smithy would approve of this selection.

80s Edition.

Hellhammer - Demon Entrails http://open.spotify.com/album/0KJJaXqklxda4srO9islax
Venom- Welcome To Hell http://open.spotify.com/album/416frNecRqcMLBExg4Yimj
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales http://open.spotify.com/album/1PAHTFExKX69ftvv1s14bg
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus http://open.spotify.com/album/3BHQVxQ9W2uqQM4zMf9CGo
Trouble - Psalm 9 http://open.spotify.com/album/36EQco7PmBiG0rDEm2gidh
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late http://open.spotify.com/album/6CyKigkGRtW3xTDZczqlRC
King Diamond - Abigail http://open.spotify.com/album/06f2VhemmvKLbch3JvFM6p
Death - Leprosy http://open.spotify.com/album/0WDuNDxOkxdTBwo3drhFY1

yeah uh maybe I'll get around to that

listening to the Morton Subotnick that unreg posted upthread; it's off the fkn chain :D

in your own time dude. But its *important* albums that more or less invented sub-genres and what a purist might say you need to know.

Oh and I forgot
Bathory - Under a Sign Of The Black Mark http://open.spotify.com/album/450O7sJi2GTzmLqHS03T88

Might have missed one towards the top of the thread

I'll get round to all of them, don't worry! Yours included...

Heard it now - vibezy and all w/ plaintive guitar/synth hook but not rly my thing

I couldnt think of any albums and a 7 hour cdv mix seemed a bit unfair so have a go at this lil charmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZmXp0_hbkg

Since I'm thinking about them and their now pretty official demise as a band. This should be within your hard edged comfort zone, I think.

Company of Thieves - Gorgeous/Grotesque

(Much of what they play sounds nothing like this, incidentally.)

And from a very different direction. Perhaps I should come up with proggier Eddie Palmieri (it does exist), but this is so great and you can't deny there's quite a bit happening in it:

Eddie Palmieri - Puerto Rico

(I think dog latin's reggae/dub made me think ok how about some salsa.)

Actually that CoT might be too bluesy for you now that I think.

I would really like imago to listen to this album.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FndWVWa36Hg/SbPVStT97KI/AAAAAAAABo8/13mJTSdcbyY/s1600-h/StranglersMeninblackR.jpg
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5267/5670316543_20a485aaaf_z.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FndWVWa36Hg/SbPVS-AWBvI/AAAAAAAABpE/EErE1acx-zA/s400/StranglersMeninblackV.jpg

Black & White too

Black & White is the best Stranglers album

I love Black & White, but it's my least favourite of their first six albums (The Raven and La Folie being the two 'desert island' picks)

I'm really keen on seeing what imago thinks of The Gospel According To The Meninblack, though. It's by far the weirdest album The Stranglers ever made, and definitely not for everyone. Their record label (United Artists) had been bought out by EMI and had become Liberty Records, and reportedly the attitude of the record label people The Stranglers were now dealing with was "we don't have a clue what this band are doing or what to do with them, but they seem to sell albums whenever they release one so we'll leave them to it". So the band indulged themselves: fucked their heads up on hard drugs, recorded at the most expensive studios they could (including Startling Studios, Musicland Studios, Pathe Marconi and several others), had no less than four engineers working on a rota so they could work around the clock (and because all the band members were under the influence of different drugs at different times), and because of no record label interference, basically did what the fuck they wanted without even caring whether or not it would be understood. Just as well really, because it wasn't understood at all.

All the drums were tracked individually(!) for maximum separation, and so they could apply effects to one specific drum at any one time without it fucking up the mix, as well as drums being recorded through condenser mics to fuck up the sound... as a result some of the stereo panning on the album is a bit crazy and headphone listening is an experience. None of the songs are all that accessible, and the ones that could possibly be accessible have something odd going on with them. It's quite jazz-influenced in places, and definitely a highly, highly indulgent record. It flopped massively, was misunderstood by pretty much everybody, and The Stranglers would never have the opportunity to be that indulgent again.

It's actually singer Hugh Cornwell's favourite Stranglers album, and bassist JJ Burnel cites it as one of his favourites alongside The Raven, probably because they had such a blast making it.

and I recommend listening The Gospel while reading this exhaustive PDF about the album...

http://www.strangled.co.uk/PDF/but_issue_02.pdf

(There's one on Black & White too on the same site)

I've written my own (IMO quite wittily-observed) spoof review but I'm not sure how I could post it here...

― l0u1s jagg3r (Haberdager), Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:30 PM (7 years ago)

just for posterity

wittily-observed.

quite

Time to listen to some dub, Imago.

i dunno but i kinda think this might be imagoish

http://pyrrhonband.bandcamp.com/album/the-mother-of-virtues

cool :) and will check that out once I've finished watching La Belle Noiseuse but this thread is essentially defunct and I would like it to remain so - send all subsequent recommendations to Unknown, vaguely Cardiacsy prog-pop that only MaresNest and I actually like

oh, well, this is not cardiacsy prog-pop, and anyway, you're not the boss of me

you should listen to roky erickson, i'm jamming the evil one right now, this light in the attic reissue is off the meat rack

"stand for the fire demon!" dun dun dun dun dun *rock*

after you do that, let me know what you think of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AhU12zC8fc

You're the prog-not-prog guy right? Try Butter by Hudson Mohawke

xxxp everyone should listen to Roky, and the 13th Floor Elevators too!

I take it back j, but only coz this is extremely kickass :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGXIgz5hhzQ

This video is private.

Sorry about that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lALxW-8zvdc

new ooioo might be worth yr while if yer open to some gamelan prog punk

that was pleasant, if a little meditative for my current state (ill, distracted, tired) - might return to it later :)

LJ do you like Skeletons?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcwMyIJ0Ob8

think I've heard them before! they have some likeable elements. they remind me a little of the band Volcano! whom I've proselytised at length before - the latter are more frenetic, more vivid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxhg_fWEUcc

Yea, weirdly I was looking at a Volcano! CD on my shelf about an hour ago thinking 'I can't remember anything about this'

did u listen to any arrigo barnabé yet

imago have you ever heard boogie down productions

― example (crüt), Wednesday, August 27, 2014 5:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you should really give Criminal Minded and By All Means Necessary a few spins

cool! well i'm back at home on my own proper internet connection tomorrow - over the weekend I'll listen to them :)

arrigo too, wins :/

right now i'm trying to spotify-stream the pet shop boys from a second-storey hotel room with an already-slow wifi box in the lobby pulsing out weak rays of sporadic provenance to my ken. it's no way to live

(but…you don't understand! ken is my interactive buttplug!)

wait, is the wifi box roaming around the hotel lobby?

are you gonna listen to track 6 of every album on the noms list or whatever you did last time?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2r5yqjlVrI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

My 2nd attempt to get you to listen to this...

give me some minutes, am out of doors and hurt

coffins on io v good obv DAM, more soon

nice sn

by some savage and beautiful coincidence, THAT is THE D'Angelo song I like best off the album - even more amazingly, my gf chose it as the representative track on our playlist of the ILM albums poll! it is brilliant and strange. I also like the opener, Charade and Prayer. so that answers your question too, wins - we're not on track 6 this year but the first 10 seconds of track 1, then more if it sounds any good (like D'Angelo)

Don't forget to give Eyvind Kang's latest album a good listen imago, it is extremely beautiful.

1000 Deaths is my second favorite song of the year. Livid beyond measure that I failed to nominate it for tracks poll

it didn't get nominated? o dear.

yeah listening to this again, it's insane and wonderful - when it explodes in the last minute, jesus. that groove

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAWmOoVJvIU

dunno if you know this esben & the witch song - might be something you'd enjoy? bit of a long one but not one minute wasted imo

many a genial time is had by those who locate atmosphere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJkveJMNMSo

Don't forget to give Eyvind Kang's latest album a good listen imago, it is extremely beautiful.

― xelab, Sunday, January 11, 2015 9:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, especially the track 'Variel' in all its Arabic Toyland 70s movie dream sequence-ness.

If you haven't checked out The Narrow Garden, then that's a must also.

cool, will check these out

been playing the weyes blood album on repeat all morning. it is so so so so so good

You vote yet?

http://sturgillsimpson.bandcamp.com/track/it-aint-all-flowers

eh that's ok, got some surprisingly beautiful moments but probably not gonna disturb my ballot even if ilx is voting en masse ;)

esben and the witch song was nice

um

eyvind kang! oh god so much music though! been ploughing thru the list, so hard to know what to vote for now

one that got nowhere in the poll:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TW49X2G_Ss

you should listen to the jlin album, it is excellent

rad ok

yeah this is great

yep

imago, do you like Punishment of Luxury? they sometimes make me think of early Cardiacs covering John Foxx era Ultravox, or maybe vice versa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RTQNmNJHuM

I meant to post that to the vaguely Cardiacsy prog-pop thread, but what's done is ddone

hey this is cool

it doesn't quite have the cardiacs melodic sensibility & hence the sublimity, but it is p wired in a good way

progge-poppe-landfill interzone bubbler seems relevant to your interests

(I love this)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGAwp5syXyE

Will get on that later

Is the Carly Rae Jepsen album something I might appreciate?

Do you like Carly Rae Jepsen?

ahem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHmdci-fGLk

can scarcely believe i'm saying this but that FFS is almost TOO progge - the bit that kicks in after the intro and returns at the end is awesome but there's a but too much (arch and intentional) noodling for me. might well investigate further

this TFUL album is the fucken nuts :D

star trek -> tell me = XDDDDD

oh fuck, this has turned into the most intense fever dream

'tuning notes' is where it leaps off the cliff and becomes a classic album maybe

haven't listened to tful since college, happy to rediscover (& enjoying yr take)

I was thinking a little bit more today about those "difficult" pieces on MOAS. Although I appreciate the pared-down song-oriented tracklist someone posted in this (or the other) thread, the spacing of those tracks really helps with the sequencing and overall epic flow of the record.. I think that at the time there was some criticism of teh "practice room" pieces in the press but it was also kind of a statement of purpose by the band. At any rate, "Tuning Notes" has perversely become one of my fave tracks from that record as the years have gone by. It's just such a perfect window into their world, a distillation of the practice room experience.

― sleeve, Saturday, June 11, 2011 11:40 AM (4 years ago)

imago, has anyone made you listen to 'mud' off the GABI album entitled 'sympathy' yet and if not, why not?

i'm listening in the minutes before leaving for the doctor's with severe tonsillitis. the fact it's choral is making me plain envious if anything

this is cool, like if someone decided to make slowdive's 'pygmalion' into an opera

i'm listening in the minutes before leaving for the doctor's with severe tonsillitis

oof, maybe not the time for creeping queasiness then. good luck!

do you like this shit? I feel like maybe you'd like this shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMj8Y56WmfU

yes that sounded quite promising thank you

weird art rock usually a fruitful line of enquiry

I don't wonder if you might dig Japan's Vampillia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyqKNmIl_k4

apologies my man but that doesn't quite do it for me…a bit lol random w/o much in the way of memorable songwriting or sonic intrigue…but you are encouraged to keep chucking 'em down

Vampillia are frustrating because they can be brilliant but can also be sort of irritating. I like that they're kind of multifaceted but their mix of sincerity and wanton goofball tendencies don't really gel. I have to say that personally I think Ice Fist is a great track though.

They remind me a lot of another band from Japan, Mutyumu, who came a bit before. They're less polished but more refined if that makes sense.

One of their "pop" songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atOGv14hLys&index=4&list=PL18F216634676A0D5

Epic post-rock blowout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RoegQvn7Ak

They had/have some more black metal-tinged material as well. It might be worth pointing out that I despise opera but for some reason I like the voice in this context.

OK I fucked up that first video

Thanks UUG, never heard of those guys. A couple of friends and I have just started a little radio show playing non mainstream music from Japan, from the last few decades, it's been fun researching lot's of different crazy bands to play.

XXXP - wildo LJ, no worries :)

Homeboy Sandman

ty

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpvztXgGzYSHHac4VPLofaPc7cZmVLKYU

(^^ Skeptics - Amalgam)

chris weisman - the sweetest flags

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzWiEJaRyNA

chris weisman - hand sign

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxufwTBtGak

(but two...)

oops those weren't meant to embed

I've heard good things about Foetus-Nail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vI-dbV4D9k

Yes indeed! Well, I might check out some of your solo votes. Everyone else, check out Re-TROS, a band only denied a place in this poll because they had the ghastly temerity to release more than one excellent song last year

xp

― imago, Thursday, 25 January 2018 22:58 (yesterday)

Just so I'm not cluttering up the singles ballots thread - not sure if any of my other singles votes are particularly LJ-aligned apart from "The Doctrines Of Swedenborg" & "Que Du Bon", but there's a few bits & pieces you might find interesting:

i.e. crazy - non compos mentis (hysterical industrial folk)

https://muzai.bandcamp.com/album/non-compos-mentis

Some vaguely recent Chinese stuff that I'd cluster w/Re-TROS:

Beijing's Chui Wan:

https://chui-wan.bandcamp.com/album/chui-wan

Chengdu's STOLEN:
https://site.douban.com/stolen/
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJLuT0Pmg_qaL1-Kb0TD1sALBlp9h4fuJ
https://mimixingdong.bandcamp.com/

Shanghai's Mirrors:
https://separatemirrors.bandcamp.com/album/separate-reality

& if you squint a bunch you can vaguely compare this to Jute Gyte...

Shandong black metal band Zuriaake:

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/lake-of-buried-corpses-chinese-metal-band-digs-out-ancient-9872674
https://pestproductions.bandcamp.com/album/gu-yan-album

Also you probably saw Siegbran repping Lingua Ignota's two EPs, which are excellent.

whoa cheers for all this! let's dig in...

ok ie crazy is kind of wonderful

yeah that was really amazing. wish i'd discovered it before the albums poll deadline! ah well. really strong songwriting all the way through and a wickedly delirious atmosphere.

chui wan closing track 'beijing is sinking' was wonderful

mirrors seem fun, loved the 3rd track. they're one to watch. is there a thread for chinese psych?

diving into the zuriaake now...

It was very pleasant!

But yeah, i.e. crazy. Incredible. Would have threatened my top 5 if I'd known about it

Funnily enough, I'd been half-thinking of recommending you Baby Zionov's Henrietta but I unexpectedly stumbled across you repping it on Twitter! There's a nice out-of-flux-y scene in Auckland at the moment with lots of side projects (including their dungeon synth project Gayblade).

There's new i.e. crazy singles trickling out, and you might like Grecco Romank - acid-friend bogan industrial:

https://greccoromank.bandcamp.com/album/red-tower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EEu__Cf-JM

AHEM

https://tful282.bandcamp.com/album/strangers-from-the-universe

oh hello yes yes this is all nice. i have a sleeping ill person here but will check this all tomorrow

i am pals with Baby Zionov on RYM - been mutuals for about 5 years, v thrilled she is finally turning her taste in weird stuff into weird stuff

i forgot that this thread was where i learnt about i.e. crazy too. her new stuff is sounding killer, the comeback single had a great run on the latest peoples_pop poll too

Delighted to find you're into the Crocodiles! I'd always meant to start a "world famous in New Zealand" thread for all the stuff you hear at the supermarket/as hold music but has zero overseas profile compared to the trillion Flying Nun / Dead C threads on here.

This gets a little into the avant-theatre/jazz/etc ferment the Crocodiles emerged from (some parallels to Split Enz etc):
https://www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/the-crocodiles

Proto-vaporwave video from another NZ new wave group:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxu0dM89Vm8

imago, have you heard the new Doctor Dark album from the Residents? It sounds like imagocore

New Baby Zionov singles are sounding fantastic, new Grecco Romank is great, and tropical-industrial maven Ron Gallipoli's operetta/"field opera" An Imposter features i.e. crazy and Billie from Grecco:

https://rongallipoli.bandcamp.com/album/an-imposter

I'm online pals with Baby Zionov and had no idea she had new stuff coming out soon lol. I reviewed the last one on RYM! Anyhow, thanks for keeping up me updated from the far side, will def give this linked thing a go :)

I'd always meant to start a "world famous in New Zealand" thread for all the stuff you hear at the supermarket/as hold music but has zero overseas profile

Did this never happen? I for one would read with interest!

The Baby Zionov preview stuff is incredible yeah, have told them so myself too :D

Field opera to follow soon...

Omg this is sounding great

https://95bfm.com/bcast/long-player-baby-zionov-raceways-of-my-heart

Baby Zionov album is out! Nice track-by-track rundown.

(time to dig into what you posted in the AOTY thread)

I've already heard and really liked the Baby Zionov! I'll return to it today though, it is truly the Happiest Hardcore :)

I feel like it's worth saying that beside the 108 albums from 2025 I've heard, there's a very large range of older stuff I've gotten into this year. I'll do a breakdown of that at some point